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...tourist spending are developers and owners, who often take their profits out of town and, if they are foreigners, out of the country as well. Even the tourist industry is starting to recognize that threatened treasures must be protected or business will not survive. As London's Daily Telegraph put it in an editorial, "Unless tourism is brought under firmer discipline, it will destroy itself. We think we are within measurable distance of killing the goose which lays the golden eggs...
That report was a blatant rewriting of history. Across Iraq, the shattered hulks of planes and tanks lie strewn across airfields and battlegrounds. Power stations, telephone and telegraph centers, oil refineries and factories have been reduced to smoldering ruins. Dozens of bombed bridges are slumped into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, as well as an unknown number of civilians, are dead. Many thousands more are either prisoners of the allied forces or straggling abjectly back to Iraq without their weapons. If this was victory, it is impossible to imagine what would constitute defeat...
When American Telephone & Telegraph entered the computer business six years ago, big things were expected to happen. After all, the company had invented the transistor, the basic building block of modern computers, and it had built the nation's telephone system, which is essentially one vast computer network. Industry analysts predicted that AT&T one day would even challenge IBM for market supremacy. The government, which had barred Ma Bell from the business until the phone monopoly was broken in 1984, fretted that it might be opening the way for the giant (1989 revenues: $36.11 billion) to dominate the computer...
...what exactly will the U.S. and Iraq talk about? Everything and nothing, it seems. During his midday press conference last Friday, Bush said Baker would be prepared "to discuss all aspects of the gulf crisis," words that appeared to telegraph the possibility of a face-saving compromise. But there "can be no face-saving," Bush added only minutes later. Baker's will not be a "trip of concession," the President insisted. His sole purpose will be to make sure Saddam "understands the commitment of the U.S." to "implementing to a T . . . the United Nations position." That would mean Bush...
...Pentagon itself has been soberly reassessing the costs of conflict. The quick and clean scenarios floated brashly in September have been tossed aside. If war comes, said Cheney, "it won't be easy." So while the significant increase in allied firepower helps telegraph Washington's seriousness of purpose, it is military necessity as much as psychological posturing that mandates the added punch...